Half the universe’s ordinary matter was missing — and may have been found
The long-sought matter appears to have been hiding in the gaps between galaxies
![Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/052620_mt_frb-missing-matter_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Observations of brief, brilliant flashes of radio waves from other galaxies, detected by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (pictured), indicate that all of the universe’s “missing matter” is lurking in intergalactic space.
CSIRO, Alex Cherney